But millions and millions read his books and looked cautiously at 11PM at the shadows at the end of the bed before they closed their eyes.... or maybe the closet door was just a too much open.
I know this will sound weird to some people and to some they will sadly know where I'm coming from. Stephen King saved my sanity as a teenager. When i read his books i could leave my horrible home life for a few chapters at a time. When people talk about his drug/alcohol abuse. He's human. Shit happens. Mr. King is the one who told us He had a problem. He's overcome His addictions and is a better man for it. Be like STEPHEN KING!
I agree. The second decade of my life were the best and worst years of my life, and Stephen King was an author I read to get away from the problems I had as a teenager.
His books saved my sanity somehow as well!!. Especially Eddie, and the kids in IT, Rose Daniels in Rose Madder. I'm starting late but I'm finally going to school and I chose to major in Sociology and I really think his books combined with my childhood got me here. I keep Rose Madder with me nearly all the time, especially when I'm nervous or scared etc...
I remember in the spring of 1982 I had just discovered Stephen King at the age of 14 and my mom woke me up so that I could watch this interview. Thanks for posting this!
Just finished The Institute...King has never slowed with his ability to write terror in ways we don’t usually expect. Another character-driven masterpiece, terrifying us in unorthodox ways. I pray it’s not going to be his last. He just appeared on The View, and he looks rearing to go...probably already working on his next. He produces something like 2,000 words per day, according to him.
Yeah. He said he wanted to try something (a test). What he did, was read a few chapters of books from other Author's, and that would help get his creative juice's flowing, and the words and thoughts came to him FASTER than he was able to write them down. He said, BEFORE that, he was putting out about (1,000-1,200) words per day, and when he started doing THIS, he starting pumping out (2,000) words or MORE ... DAILY. That's equivalent to (6-7) BOOK pages--a DAY! It's no wonder he puts out a book every 6-MONTHS.
Stephen King is such phenomenon talent. What a wonderful writer, and yet I keep hearing him a million times, where in the hell does he get his ideas? I grew him up reading his books when I was a kid and now , I'm 55 now and I still read his books. He's my idol. He such an inspiration to us all, I love his passion for books and writing.
Interesting how they keep referring him as “young man” but this was 40 years ago! He is 74 now. Mr. King is one of the best authors that has really influenced my life! Love this guy! 💖
He's ALSO the THIRD (3rd) RICHEST Author ON THE PLANET. Makes about $40-MILLION a YEAR ... NOW! His estimated 'Net Worth,' I heard is between $550-$600 MILLION.
He's Authored nearly 7-DOZEN books, wrote nearly 2-DOZEN Screenplay's, HUNDREDS of short-stories, wrote AND produced several TV shows, and he's DIRECTED a movie or two.
This aired on what would have been my 12th birthday. Shortly after I discovered Mr King when I read Carrie and became a lifelong fan and constant reader. Thank you for posting this. I had never seen it before. Very cool.
mad props to Uncle Steve. I never saw this interview as a kid but Creepshow scared me so much. What a thrill. Stephen King is a mensch. I saw him speaking live one year in the nineties in Santa Cruz, he toured on his motorcycle. All around cool guy.
@@mistaleesreversespeech7728 Where can I find said information. I just looked up bill Cohen and Bangor military pedophile ring and got nothing. I'm honestly interested if there is truth to any of that, but I'm coming up with biographies and a few articles on King living in Maine. Understand I mean no offense but just a speculative open mind until I can see the evidence. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Thanks for this clip! SK always gives insights into the writing process in these interviews. A great example for aspiring authors such as myself. IT is his best novel in my opinion: it both scared the shit out of me -- but it also reflected what it was like to grow up in a small town...
I believe King has said that Pet Semetary was the one book that creeped him out the most. I have not seen the remake, but the first movie stands up remarkably well (which sort of surprised me). Also, considering that King himself was struck by a truck on a busy, yet small, Maine road, well, that was just weird.
The part in the book where they talk about that guys dead son coming back after he died in the war. Walking up and down the road. Dead. That part creeps me out. Its a well written story.
1.) There is *no* "the" in "Firestarter"... *still,* David Letterman! 2.) My favorite part of Creepshow was "The Crate," and its duration was one of the best things about it, because (as with "Alien") it gave time for the characters and situations to develop better, so we were more invested in their fates. 3.) I really enjoyed "Something To Tide You Over," and regard it as the 2nd best part of Creepshow, right after "The Crate." 4.) I wish more people would see "Creepshow," because it was a loving tribute to the genre, and *anything* featuring both you *and* you son is *guaranteed* to be good! 👍 5.) I'm quite convinced the key thing *was* a trick, yes. Come on, you *know* what Carl Sagan would say; Controlled conditions...which a salon *isn't.*
Thank you, I'm a big fan of the earlier Letterman shows. Don, I don't know if you were involved with the NBC's Night Music with David Sanborn, it was a great jazz showcase while it lasted. If you have some clips...
I wasn't involved with any television show. But I, too, loved the Sanborn show. The first year it was called "Sunday Night," and then the second and last changed to "Night Music." I taped and have since digitized all of them. Most have been uploaded on You Tube by someone who recorded the Japanese syndicated version. Worth checking out.
@@danielhammond9562 He apparently was coked out of his mind while filming Maximum Overdrive. I honestly just want to know what that set was like with Estevez, explosions everywhere, vehicle demolitions, and King running the beautifully ridiculous show with a bag in his pocket.
My older sister read Carrie Book , but I was too young only 6 years old. One day I climbed My Sisters Closet & saw the Book Carrie.. A woman with Blood over her. I started to place stickers up in the closet that are still there today & Today no one knows about all the 50 stickers up in the closet.... There still there... today, no one is small enough to climb up closet & see them. Theirs a sticker from Jet Fire an Auto-bot Transformer that cost over 40$ in the 80's. No one today knows there still up in the closet.... after 38 years...
Mr. King is a giant inspiration for me in my material. My Brother Mike would do a pretty weird but good impression of the zombie skeleton of the Father from Creepshow. It's my favorite Mr. King and Mr. Romero film. 1. Creepshow 2. IT 3. Salem's Lot 3. The Shining 5. Storm Of The Century 6. Rose Red 7. Sleepwalkers 8. Silver Bullet 9. Pet Sematary 10. Christine I would make my Top 10 King Favorites List.
Kings appearance here in contrast to his appearance on Letterman in 1980 is a complete transformation, In 1980 he looked like an overweight dork and here like a cool college lit professor...
- [02:10] 🧙♂ King discusses how he got the idea for "Firestarter" from stories in the National Enquirer about spontaneous human combustion. - [03:37] 🪄 King shares an anecdote about witnessing a woman seemingly move an object with her mind, reminiscent of telekinesis. - [05:14] 🎬 King talks about his venture into screenwriting with "Creepshow," an original screenplay done in collaboration with George Romero. - [08:09] 📽 "Creepshow" consists of five stories, with "The Crate" being the longest, running about 45 minutes. - [08:25] 🤔 King discusses whether he frightens himself while writing horror, citing a scene from "The Shining" that scared him. - [09:30] 🎞 King humorously anticipates audiences crawling out of the theater after watching "Creepshow," emphasizing its chilling effect.
kind of cool how Letterman interviewed King on that daytime show in 1980, where King mentioned he was writing a script with George A. Romero. now here we have two years later, April Fool's Day, and King's now promoting the movie they made. which, as it happens, is of course _Creepshow_ and is a howlingly great time at the movies. scary, stupid, smart, funny, scary again. it's got it all. best B-Movie ever made, if you catch my meaning. it's not trying to be anything it isn't. it's just a really good, campy, atmospheric good time.
Kudos to that lone soul in the public who clapped when King mentioned George Romero.
Really agree. Romero is a legend
Do you mean Kujos
Oddly I thought I missed it and liked just as he mentioned it.
Ahead of his/her time.
But millions and millions read his books and looked cautiously at 11PM at the shadows at the end of the bed before they closed their eyes.... or maybe the closet door was just a too much open.
Watching this in 2019 is like something out of a Stephen King novel.
Or movie
Haha
His books write themselves. Lol
I didn't think it was that bad.
Just you wait for 2021!
I know this will sound weird to some people and to some they will sadly know where I'm coming from. Stephen King saved my sanity as a teenager. When i read his books i could leave my horrible home life for a few chapters at a time. When people talk about his drug/alcohol abuse. He's human. Shit happens. Mr. King is the one who told us He had a problem. He's overcome His addictions and is a better man for it. Be like STEPHEN KING!
This is literally the most beautiful comment ever.
@@andimackedits3029 I agree. Very inspiring.
I agree. The second decade of my life were the best and worst years of my life, and Stephen King was an author I read to get away from the problems I had as a teenager.
Nope; it makes perfect sense to me. 💜💖
His books saved my sanity somehow as well!!. Especially Eddie, and the kids in IT, Rose Daniels in Rose Madder. I'm starting late but I'm finally going to school and I chose to major in Sociology and I really think his books combined with my childhood got me here. I keep Rose Madder with me nearly all the time, especially when I'm nervous or scared etc...
That is the mother of all beards. The one beard that rules them all.
Thicc like gorilla hair
"The beard can't help you now..."
Yep, and the beard tells the razor, “You shall not pass!”
his beard = IT
Lolzxx
That's how a writer is supposed to look, dammit.
On coke?
Yeaaaah ikrrrr
I agree. Until you have a burly beard, you’re not a real writer. That goes for women, too.
Word
Nathan Isaksson I got a book coming out in around 6 months- better get growing 😂😂
I remember in the spring of 1982 I had just discovered Stephen King at the age of 14 and my mom woke me up so that I could watch this interview. Thanks for posting this!
@Cookie Monster, Wow, what a cool Mom !
Cool mom. Reminds me of mine would do that too or tell me I didn't have to go to bed yet
Cool mom hope she’s still doing these nice things
Stephen King looked like somebody doing a cosplay of him today.
supbrotv He looks like his son Joe Hill went into a time machine to 1982 and pretended to be his dad.
So strange to see him here...wildly successful, but nowhere even NEAR what he’d eventually become. “The young man....Stephen King” wow. So surreal.
King and Dave - both "famous" at the time and about to become FAMOUS!
Most incredible part of this whole interview is King explaining who Ted Danson is to the crowd.
“Cheers” wouldn’t debut until the following Fall.
King goes on to write The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, The Dome, Misery and so many other amazing pieces!
dick clarke
The Body*
Yeeees
IT
Gerald's Game too. A masterpiece.
@LiveOkie
The Dome was a great book. The TV show was shite. It's subjective. Don't be a cvnt about it.
And 37 years later, movies are still being made (or remade) of his books.
Everything from the 90s & 80s are the best
@Mark Allen Misey, Shawshank, Stand By Me, IT, Carrie, Deadzone, and 11/22/63 series
Mark Allen and IT dat was good 💯
@Mark Allen The Green Mile is a Masterpiece!!
Mark Allen but it’s nothing like the book :(
It’s incredible how much his son Joe Hill looks like him here
Truly.
Joe Hill plays the little boy in Creepshow
A legend in his own lifetime.
So cool
Indeed, just like Isaac Asimov and other notables.
Just finished The Institute...King has never slowed with his ability to write terror in ways we don’t usually expect. Another character-driven masterpiece, terrifying us in unorthodox ways. I pray it’s not going to be his last. He just appeared on The View, and he looks rearing to go...probably already working on his next. He produces something like 2,000 words per day, according to him.
New book to be out March 2021.
Yeah. He said he wanted to try something (a test). What he did, was read a few chapters of books from other Author's, and that would help get his creative juice's flowing, and the words and thoughts came to him FASTER than he was able to write them down. He said, BEFORE that, he was putting out about (1,000-1,200) words per day, and when he started doing THIS, he starting pumping out (2,000) words or MORE ... DAILY.
That's equivalent to (6-7) BOOK pages--a DAY!
It's no wonder he puts out a book every 6-MONTHS.
Such a talent and yet he remains so down to earth. Cheers to my fellow Constant Readers.
Stephen King is such phenomenon talent. What a wonderful writer, and yet I keep hearing him a million times, where in the hell does he get his ideas? I grew him up reading his books when I was a kid and now , I'm 55 now and I still read his books. He's my idol. He such an inspiration to us all, I love his passion for books and writing.
Interesting how they keep referring him as “young man” but this was 40 years ago! He is 74 now. Mr. King is one of the best authors that has really influenced my life! Love this guy! 💖
He's ALSO the THIRD (3rd) RICHEST Author ON THE PLANET. Makes about $40-MILLION a YEAR ... NOW!
His estimated 'Net Worth,' I heard is between $550-$600 MILLION.
He's Authored nearly 7-DOZEN books, wrote nearly 2-DOZEN Screenplay's, HUNDREDS of short-stories, wrote AND produced several TV shows, and he's DIRECTED a movie or two.
This comment coming from a fox 😆
He looks 50+ here
What book would you recommend of Mr. King? I've never read him and I'm interested.
this was 42 years ago. :o LETTERMAN AND STEPHEN KING ARE ABSOLUTE LEGENDS.
Wow great to see some early King ..Thanks !
There is plenty of early King on youtube.
This aired on what would have been my 12th birthday. Shortly after I discovered Mr King when I read Carrie and became a lifelong fan and constant reader. Thank you for posting this. I had never seen it before. Very cool.
I love it when Stephen King starts talking about creepy weird stuff while he's giving an interview!
mad props to Uncle Steve. I never saw this interview as a kid but Creepshow scared me so much. What a thrill. Stephen King is a mensch. I saw him speaking live one year in the nineties in Santa Cruz, he toured on his motorcycle. All around cool guy.
8:18 check out the date on the crate. King's accident would occur on June 19, 1999, 17 years after this interview.
Poor George Romero got one single clap when mentioned 😭
Letterman's audience at that time was not of an age to be tuned in to what Romero had accomplished at that point.
Classic💎 King, Romero & Creepshow all incredibly legendary 🙌🙌🙌
Ahead of his time. I've always found King highly relatable.
Being a Creepshow fanboy, hearing someone talk about pre release kicks ass! >:P
Stephan king looks like my high school biology teacher.
More like a chemistry teacher...
He was a high school English teacher when Carrie took off
@@mistaleesreversespeech7728
Let me guess you heard about the orgy part in IT and have reached that conclusion, without ever reading the book.
@@mistaleesreversespeech7728
Where can I find said information. I just looked up bill Cohen and Bangor military pedophile ring and got nothing. I'm honestly interested if there is truth to any of that, but I'm coming up with biographies and a few articles on King living in Maine. Understand I mean no offense but just a speculative open mind until I can see the evidence. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
@@mistaleesreversespeech7728 that still isn't proof that Stephen is a pedophile. He isn't.
He’s such a good writer because he could see through the pages of his own manuscript and see what he was going to write next with those glasses
Holy shit he looks exactly like his son Joe Hill here. Like 100% the same person.
Four years ago, no one knew yet about the secret cloning project in far northeastern Maine. Now we know why the resemblance is so strong.
You have to give it to King. His creative mind is just awesome. That level of consistency over decades.
It’s truly impressive.
Thanks for this clip! SK always gives insights into the writing process in these interviews. A great example for aspiring authors such as myself. IT is his best novel in my opinion: it both scared the shit out of me -- but it also reflected what it was like to grow up in a small town...
He talks about gore so casually and it's legendary
Creep Show is an excellent movie. The variety among the five stories guarantees one of them will rattle your nerves. The Crate is my favorite.
This interview took place three days before I was born. Gotta love bearded Stephen King 👍
that beard is an absolute unit
"Did you have a normal childhood?"
*King thinking about Dave's super duper electromagnet* ....Yes.
Spontaneous combustion!! He is one of the VERY BEST in so many lifetimes🤔 Joe Hill is incredible too!
Found this looking for Stephen King interviews, forgot how good early Letterman was while watching.
Kings mind is AMAZING,If you read one of his books,they are very hard to put down!Insomnia is a GREAT book!
Great look!
Those legs at the beginning are stunning .
My favorite interviewer and my favorite writer three years before I was born. Thanks, Al. G. Rhythm!
Creepshow gives me the chills more than any other movie.
it's also freakin' hilarious!
The Crate
When I was a kid the cockroach story scared me the most.
He's so cool. I love him!
Thanks for all the great work lately.
You're quite welcome. : )
Thanks again, Don!
Great to see Steve at such a young age
This is some great King nostalgia
The good drugs though.
The more I see this man,the more it amazes me.My God ,he himself looked so terrifying for a supernatural writer!
1:26 the one geek that laughs in the audience and nobody follows him.
It sounds like someone responds with "shut up"
I counted at least three.
Crazy how far nerd culture has come.
Thank you so much for uploading this.
Love this guy!!
What 😳
Good lord. This was when I was starting my lifelong journey with Stephen King, with me the humble constant reader endlessly entertained. Cheers!
What 💡
The thumbnail for the video had me thinking they were interviewing the king of the beavers
Perskij Ericson LMAO
😂😂😂
"I love Night of the Living Dead. The one where they are walking though the mall..." lol
What 💡
I forget about this genius sometimes.
My favorite book of the king must be *IT*... the characters and atmosphere are so good.
I almost thought that he had a single, giant tooth when I looked at the thumbnail.
Like Rose the Hat.
I AM NOT MY FATHER
@@luqas99 Rose's tooth was like a fang. Uncle Stephens looks like a square.
The King of Horror stories, Mr.Stephen King! #1 in my book! even though there are some other good author's out there as well!
Geez what are his glasses, like a minus eleven?
early 80s.. 🤷♂️
..it was the 80's lol.. glasses didn't become cool til after the mid 90's when they made circle lens, and all black frames
Lol he had to explain who Ted Danson is.
Ted Danson as Brian as Tom Cruise
What's crazy is, before I knew what SK looked like, that is exactly! how I pictured him to look.
😂😂😂😂how else would he look
What a legend
What💡
“It’s a fun picture!” It actually is! Funny as hell!
If you put a picture of his Son Joe along side this 1982 version of Stephen… amazing
What a rare video interview! Great! Isn't it uncanny how much Joe Hill looks like his dad?? wow.
I believe King has said that Pet Semetary was the one book that creeped him out the most. I have not seen the remake, but the first movie stands up remarkably well (which sort of surprised me). Also, considering that King himself was struck by a truck on a busy, yet small, Maine road, well, that was just weird.
The part in the book where they talk about that guys dead son coming back after he died in the war. Walking up and down the road. Dead. That part creeps me out. Its a well written story.
Nice to see Letterman inviting Gerry Adams onto the show.
Too few will understand this, but I also see the resemblance. But at least Stephen King would say "peace process" instead "pace process."
the most mindblowing things i had in my live was reading "insomnia" that book is close to lucid dreaming without fallling asleep
i love these movies
1.) There is *no* "the" in "Firestarter"... *still,* David Letterman! 2.) My favorite part of Creepshow was "The Crate," and its duration was one of the best things about it, because (as with "Alien") it gave time for the characters and situations to develop better, so we were more invested in their fates. 3.) I really enjoyed "Something To Tide You Over," and regard it as the 2nd best part of Creepshow, right after "The Crate." 4.) I wish more people would see "Creepshow," because it was a loving tribute to the genre, and *anything* featuring both you *and* you son is *guaranteed* to be good! 👍 5.) I'm quite convinced the key thing *was* a trick, yes. Come on, you *know* what Carl Sagan would say; Controlled conditions...which a salon *isn't.*
I was born exactly 1 year later to the day when this aired
^^ Impressive
Thank you, I'm a big fan of the earlier Letterman shows. Don, I don't know if you were involved with the NBC's Night Music with David Sanborn, it was a great jazz showcase while it lasted. If you have some clips...
I wasn't involved with any television show. But I, too, loved the Sanborn show. The first year it was called "Sunday Night," and then the second and last changed to "Night Music."
I taped and have since digitized all of them. Most have been uploaded on You Tube by someone who recorded the Japanese syndicated version. Worth checking out.
Still waiting on behind the scenes footage of him directing Maximum Overdrive
He's a terrible writer and director for movies.
@@danielhammond9562 He apparently was coked out of his mind while filming Maximum Overdrive. I honestly just want to know what that set was like with Estevez, explosions everywhere, vehicle demolitions, and King running the beautifully ridiculous show with a bag in his pocket.
So many years to get a black hole photography and alll you had to do was combine Stephen's King lenses...
This gets better by the minute
My older sister read Carrie Book , but I was too young only 6 years old. One day I climbed My Sisters Closet & saw the Book Carrie.. A woman with Blood over her. I started to place stickers up in the closet that are still there today & Today no one knows about all the 50 stickers up in the closet.... There still there... today, no one is small enough to climb up closet & see them. Theirs a sticker from Jet Fire an Auto-bot Transformer that cost over 40$ in the 80's. No one today knows there still up in the closet.... after 38 years...
Would have been cooler if they were deeadd people,
I'll go look for those stickers
Mr. King is a giant inspiration for me in my material. My Brother Mike would do a pretty weird but good impression of the zombie skeleton of the Father from Creepshow. It's my favorite Mr. King and Mr. Romero film.
1. Creepshow
2. IT
3. Salem's Lot
3. The Shining
5. Storm Of The Century
6. Rose Red
7. Sleepwalkers
8. Silver Bullet
9. Pet Sematary
10. Christine
I would make my Top 10 King Favorites List.
Funny, he mentions Ted Danson, who was in body heat when Cheers was going to premiere later that year.
Creepshow 1 and 2 are legend!
I like how on old talk shows they would basically explain the entire movie.
Creepshow was awesome
Killer bro, thanks for posting!
Stephen King looks like a Lego caricature of himself in this interview.
King hit em with the gansta shake at 1:00
Kings appearance here in contrast to his appearance on Letterman in 1980 is a complete transformation, In 1980 he looked like an overweight dork and here like a cool college lit professor...
Stephen King is Legendary
Watching this makes you see why David Letterman is a legend
Such a brilliant man King is ☺☺
What 💡
- [02:10] 🧙♂ King discusses how he got the idea for "Firestarter" from stories in the National Enquirer about spontaneous human combustion.
- [03:37] 🪄 King shares an anecdote about witnessing a woman seemingly move an object with her mind, reminiscent of telekinesis.
- [05:14] 🎬 King talks about his venture into screenwriting with "Creepshow," an original screenplay done in collaboration with George Romero.
- [08:09] 📽 "Creepshow" consists of five stories, with "The Crate" being the longest, running about 45 minutes.
- [08:25] 🤔 King discusses whether he frightens himself while writing horror, citing a scene from "The Shining" that scared him.
- [09:30] 🎞 King humorously anticipates audiences crawling out of the theater after watching "Creepshow," emphasizing its chilling effect.
I have said it before, and will say it again. Don Giller is a national treasure.
he is like the Forry J Ackerman of talkshows.
Protector Drone HE IS!!!
kind of cool how Letterman interviewed King on that daytime show in 1980, where King mentioned he was writing a script with George A. Romero.
now here we have two years later, April Fool's Day, and King's now promoting the movie they made.
which, as it happens, is of course _Creepshow_ and is a howlingly great time at the movies. scary, stupid, smart, funny, scary again. it's got it all.
best B-Movie ever made, if you catch my meaning. it's not trying to be anything it isn't. it's just a really good, campy, atmospheric good time.
Wow, Stephen King was so young there. Great interview by David Letterman.
Another mistake: King mentioned Ted Danson was in The Choirboys, when he was in the same author's The Onion Field.
Such an immensely talented American treasure.
Currently I feel like I’m in a Stephen Corona novel............
_"Meteor shit!"_ -Stephen King.
Hahaha he always cheers me up
The dead lady in the tub scared the hell out me too in the book. Even more than the movie!